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Re: add function argument names to regex* functions.

Chapman Flack <jcflack@acm.org>

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From: Chapman Flack <jcflack@acm.org>
To: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Dian Fay <di@nmfay.com>, Jim Nasby <jim.nasby@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-07-15T14:54:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 07/15/24 10:46, Chapman Flack wrote:
> Ah, I may have mistaken which functions the patch meant to apply to.
> ...
> Any choice to use similar argument names in the regexp_* functions would
> be a matter of consistency with the analogous ISO functions, not anything
> mandated.

Or, looking back, I might have realized these were the non-ISO regexp_*
functions, but seen there was bikeshedding happening over the best name
to use for the occurrence argument, and merely suggested ISO's choice
OCCURRENCE for the analogous ISO functions, as a possible bikeshed
accelerator.

Regards,
-Chap

Commits

  1. Doc: fix text's description of regexp_replace's arguments.

  2. Add argument names to the regexp_XXX functions.

  3. Add assorted new regexp_xxx SQL functions.